Monica Youn | |
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| Alma mater | Princeton University, Yale Law School, Oxford University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Witter Bynner Fellowship |
Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet and lawyer.
Monica Youn | |
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| Youn, speaking in 2016 | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, Yale Law School, Oxford University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Witter Bynner Fellowship |
Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet and lawyer.
Youn was raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from St. Agnes Academy (Texas), Princeton University, Yale Law School with a J.D., and Oxford University with a M. Phil, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. [1]
Youn is the author of four poetry collections: Barter (2003), Ignatz (2010), Blackacre (2016), and From From (2023). [2] [3] Ignatz was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry; [4] Blackacre was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Poetry Collections of 2016; [5] and From From was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry, one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Poetry Collections of 2023, and was recognized as amongst the best books of the year by Time , NPR , Publishers Weekly , and more. [6]
Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker , [7] Poetry Magazine , [8] The Paris Review , [9] among other journals. She has given readings at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), [10] on NPR's All Things Considered [11] and was a keynote reader at the 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. [12]
She currently teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine. [13]
She was the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at New York University Law School. [14] She formerly directed the campaign finance reform project at the Brennan Center for Justice. [14] She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States [15] and was co-lead counsel for Defendant-Intervenors in McComish v. Bennett in 2011. [16] She has appeared on PBS Newshour , [17] Hardball with Chris Matthews , [18] Bill Moyers Journal , [19] and Need to Know . [20] She is the editor of Money, Politics and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United. [21] She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, [22] the House Judiciary Committee, [23] and the House Committee on Administration. [24]
She was a pledged delegate for Obama in the 2008 presidential election. [25] She has written for Slate , [26] The Los Angeles Times , [27] and The Huffington Post . [28]
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Blackacre, Whiteacre, Greenacre, Brownacre, and variations are the placeholder names used for fictitious estates in land.
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From From is a 2024 poetry collection by Monica Youn, published by Graywolf Press. The book's poems tackle issues of racism faced by Asian Americans and other communities in the United States. Youn's fourth collection, it was nominated for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry and won the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
The Rupture Tense is a 2022 poetry collection by Jenny Xie, published by Graywolf Press. Motivated by Xie's visit to China in 2019, the book's poem discusses her Chinese American identity alongside the broader history of the Cultural Revolution. It was nominated for several prizes and won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.
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